[Asterisk-Users] RE: [E164-discuss] RE: E164 updater Client

[Dean Collins]

Duane is working on this, there are some problems with asterisk at the
moment in delivering this back to the 'caller' and the status ap is the
first step in delivering this awareness information.

Does anyone want to help duane and matthew write this as they both have
like a million things going on at the moment between them.

I noticed www.no-ip.com have a dns updater, so something built like this
would be great.

Cheers,
Dean


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:e164-discuss-bounces at freenetworks.org] On Behalf Of Simon
Anderson
Sent: Sunday, 2 May 2004 1:54 AM
To: Discussions about e164.org
Cc: nat at nat.org
Subject: Re: [E164-discuss] RE: E164 updater Client

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 15:25, Dean Collins wrote:
> The idea is that when I'm no longer at my house I actually want to
> receive calls at another number
> 
> So I have a small software client on my windows desktop and I tell it
> I'm no longer here I'm going to be on my mobile (similar to the
> no-ip.com dns updater I use)
> 
> The client then updates the e164 database

Let's call that a "Status Ap." 

I too see the potential for an ENUM client, but I see more benefit for
it on the 'calling' side rather than the 'called' side.

Consider that an ENUM lookup can return any number of different data
fields, like for instance;

PSTN #
Mobile #
E-mail address
IM #

Which can be ordered or omitted by time of day and other criteria. 

Every contact method can be presented to the Caller, from which the
Caller can decide which to use depending upon what methods are supported
by their device and the like.

This data comes down as text, like the result of a 'dig.' It would be
extremely useful to have an application like Nat Friedman's "Dashboard"
(http://nat.org/dashboard/) (screenshot:
http://nat.org/dashboard/rewrite.png)

display this data in a useful manner.

In fact, an ENUM backend for Dashboard would be A Good Thing. 

Note that this sort of functionality wouldn't preclude the use or
usefulness of your Status Ap, but it would move the onus from the Called
party (and the DNS servers) onto the Caller.

-Simon.

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